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For too long, Black people have been told that anti-Blackness is primarily an American problem. The evidence says otherwise. From Europe to Asia, from social media platforms to courtrooms, from political movements to cultural institutions, anti-Blackness remains one of the most g...
At an HBCU football game, the action on the field is sometimes only half the attraction. The marching bands arrive with their own rivalries, traditions, and loyal fan bases, turning halftime into a full-scale production filled with booming brass, sharp choreography, elaborate for...
The fresh jalapeño recall that followed a Salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds of people across the country, caused changes at Chipotle and Qdoba, and led to a slew of related recalls has now spurred Whole Foods to pull more than three dozen products from its shelves....
Christen Phillips says she was beaten after honking at a driver who then followed her to her delivery drop-off point.
Court documents are revealing new details following an attempted armored vehicle robbery that occurred last week in Bellaire.
Officials say Mosquito Control will treat the area twice a night for the next three nights, then officials will retest the same area next week.
If you’re planning a trip to the beach, this is something worth keeping on your radar. Louisiana health officials are warning about a spike in Vibrio vulnificus — a rare but dangerous bacteria found in Gulf waters sometimes referred to as “flesh-eating” bacteria. Louisiana has co...
Wealthy Americans are increasingly looking overseas for relocation opportunities, fueling a surge in applications for one country’s “golden visa" program....
Humble Animal Shelter is being recognized for reaching a major lifesaving milestone after saving 94% of the dogs and cats that entered its care in 2025. Best Friends Animal Society presented the shelter with a no-kill award Wednesday, Aug. 12, recognizing its efforts to meet the ...
Bond has been set at $500,000 for Jazmin Cisneros, the mother of an unresponsive 2-year-old girl brought to a Spring gas station last week, who continues to fight for her life. Cisneros appeared in probable cause court Tuesday night on a charge of injury to a child. She’s accused...
Five 17-year-old boys from Grand Junction, Colorado, died when their vehicle plunged off a cliff along Lookout Lane, with speed being investigated as a possible factor....
A 23-year-old man saved a woman from an oncoming train Friday after sprinting across the tracks to lift a railroad crossing gate trapped on top of her car in Hobe Sound, Florida....
President Donald Trump’s administration said that Medicaid will stop paying for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender minors....
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has intervened in the case of a surrogate mother who came to Texas to get the court to allow treatment of the baby she's carrying with a severe heart defect after the intended parents allegedly denied the procedure....
We now have the third named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Cristobal. Cristobal formed over the northern Atlantic Ocean and is moving quickly eastward at 25 mph (41 km/h). The good news is that it’s staying over open water, and there are currently no tropi...
Tropical Storm Cristobal formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday.
The autopsy report shows that Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, died as the result of a combination of anaphylaxis, acute asthma exacerbation and the toxic effects of methamphetamine, among other factors....
Abilene was sold on promises that data centers would transform their local economy. But some residents are wondering when the benefits will come.
Get ready sky watchers! A total solar eclipse will grace the heavens on August 12 and though it won’t be totally visible from the U.S., several northern states will get a chance to enjoy a partial solar eclipse....
On Wednesday's show: We discuss the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup. And we reflect on the classic film "Casablanca" ahead of a screening at the River Oaks Theatre....
An off-the-field legal dispute briefly interrupted Boerne's championship celebration before the team's trip to Williamsport was made official.
Episode: 3399 In which we see fog dressed in fancy clothes. Today, we sing the merits of fancy fogs.
An anticipated announcement that Texas Southern has officially hired a new men’s basketball coach has turned into an unnamed duo hiring of an athletic director and a replacement for Johnny Jones. But don’t expect any official announcement of the hires anytime soon. TSU sent out a...
A judge ordered the Kennedy Center to hand over more than a quarter-million dollars to Chuck Redd, the musician who had canceled a Christmas Eve performance in protest against adding President Donald Trump’s name to the building....
A mother has been charged in connection with 2-year-old toddler who was sent to the hospital last week.
A Kentucky man died Monday after he slipped while posing for pictures atop a 177-foot-tall waterfall.
Rescue crews and civilians in Colombia painstakingly searched through rubble Tuesday in the hopes of finding survivors trapped under debris after a powerful earthquake left thousands missing in dozens of cities and towns....
The facilities were bought for nearly $123 million and were expected to hold up to 8,500 immigrants awaiting deportation.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials said Toyota’s new recall affects certain Camry Hybrid vehicles built between 2025 and 2026.
Tesla’s latest recall affects certain Model 3 and Model Y vehicles manufactured between 2017 and 2023, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration....
Former Brazoria County Deputy Kevin Tippit was indicted in the June shooting death of 18-year-old John Mendoza Jr. in Lake Jackson.
The $700-$800 million, 95-acre Margaritaville Beach Cottage Resort is slated to include a 15-story hotel, 278 beachfront cottages, lazy rivers and pickleball courts. Officials say the entire development will be completed by the end of the decade....
There’s a new little member of the KPRC 2 family! KPRC 2 meteorologist Caroline Brown and her husband, Jack, have welcomed their second baby boy, George David Chadderdon. George was born Aug. 5, and Brown shared the exciting news on social media, writing, “Our hearts have doubled...
The best meteor shower of the year reaches its peak Wednesday night into early Thursday morning. And this year, we have a big advantage: the peak coincides with a new moon, so there’s no bright moonlight to wash out the meteors. That means viewing conditions should be ideal. From...
As Austin's Elysium celebrates 25 years, a community reflects on goth's roots and future.
Russian authorities have released U.S. citizen Robert Gilman after four years in a Russian prison, where an advocacy group said he became gravely ill and was near death....
A Lotto Texas ticket sold in Angleton won the $26.75 million jackpot on Monday. Here are the winning numbers and where the ticket was sold.
Nearly 30,000 pounds of imported raw beef from South America have been recalled in two states over the failure to reinspect the product after arriving in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)....
President Donald Trump is now demanding Iran pay compensation for the families of those killed in the bombing of the USS Cole and thousands of others who have been killed in combat and in protest against Iran....
After that too-hard-to-see injury Texans receiver Tank Dell suffered 18 months ago in a game against the Kansas City Chiefs, we didn’t know what kind of career the explosive young wideout would have going forward. If we are being honest, we didn’t know if he would have a future c...
CenterPoint Energy announced a sweeping new affordability plan Monday, projecting more than $5 billion in savings for Texas electric customers over the next decade — driven largely by an influx of large-load customers, including data centers, that would shoulder a greater share o...
On Tuesday's show: President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling on federal health officials to scale back vaccine recommendations and to split the MMR vaccine into individual shots for measles, mumps, and rubella. We get reaction from a local epidemiologist....
It appears Texas Southern has offered the head men’s basketball coaching job to a candidate. But as of late Monday, nothing official had come from TSU. A source, however, familiar with a close connection to the hiring, confirmed to the Defender that Seton Hall assistant men’s bas...
